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Speaker Biography

John Campbell, BS, PMP is a 40 + year veteran of Project Management specifically in the construction industry and is currently a lead instructor for Doulos Training for 5 years and a consultant to the construction industry. John’s experience has been largely in two areas- 27 years in the construction of Health Care facilities; Hospitals Health clinics and Medical Office Buildings and 20 years in building and renovating Hotels, Resorts and Spas in the U.S., Caribbean, Central and South America and Europe. John’s largest project was a $250 million project in Worchester Mass. John is a graduate of the University of California Riverside

Craig Winder, BS, Phd, ACP, PMP – is a 20 + year veteran if IT and Project and Product Management in Healthcare, Utility and Telecommunications. He is currently is a senior project manager at Baylor –Scott Health systems in Dallas as well as a lead instructor for Doulos Training for 14 years. Craig has developed and delivered training and consultative sales packages for field service personnel, Next Generation Switching platforms, 3G Mobile systems and Symbian Development. Currently Craig is developing innovative project resource models and resource practices for a major healthcare organization.

Gary Rechtfertig, MBA, PMP – is a 50 year veteran of IT and Project Management. 16 years ago Gary founded Doulos Training to help Project Managers (PM) get their PMP certification and train PM’s in Project Management. Doulos Training currently has courses in PMP Exam Preparation; Advanced MBA levels of Project Management; Risk Management, Emotional Intelligence, Agile / SCRUM Certification and MS Project. Doulos Training has over 1,340 new PMP’s and has a base of students taught approaching 3,000 from almost 200 companies.

Gary has spoken at a National level on Project Management and Risk Management and Emotional Intelligence including PMI Global Congress in 2010. He has been an instructor in Project Management at the University of Texas – Arlington and lectures periodically at UTD, Denton, Tx and Northwood University, Red Oak, TX. He has taught computer science at the Masters level at the Advanced Management Institute in Lake Forest, IL. Gary is a consultant to Fortune 100 clients in Project Management, PMO development and Risk Management. Gary has a B.S. from Iowa State University and an MBA from Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL.

Keynote Synopsis

Three specific areas will be covered.

The history of Project Management, specifically the Project Management Institute (PMI).

The future of Project Management, specifically trends and tools that may be supporting Project Managements future.

The present - Servant Leadership as a key mindset in Project Management

John Campbell -- will discuss the History of Project Management from the viewpoint of PMI which started in 1960 and today has 865,000 PMP Certified Project Managers and offers certifications in multiple PM related areas.

Craig Winder -- will discuss Future tools for Project Management. This session will focus on current tools, tomorrow’s tools and then working to the future.

The key technology that will drive us to the future is Artificial Intelligence. As these technologies become more sophisticated it is anticipated they will move into areas of project management, some of which, will be addressed in this session. The key issues that businesses are looking to address for the future are: increasing the value added by their employees, removing waste and increasing quality. We see this is happening by moving people up to higher performance levels by automation of routine and semi-routine tasks through artificial intelligence. That is, people will be solving issues that a sophisticated robot cannot.

Gary Rechtfertig – will discuss Servant Leadership, a relatively new leadership technique endorsed by PMI. Servant Leadership has been described s a powerhouse leadership style that will transform your culture and impact your bottom line. Companies like Southwest Airlines and Whole Foods have found they have leaders who are “people centric,” who value service to others and believe they have a duty of stewardship. Nearly all are humble and passionate operators who are deeply involved in the details of their business. It is this servant culture led by a servant leader that allows companies to thrive.

We will explore How to recognize this type of culture, what are core principles to apply to your environment to become a servant leader culture. Servant leaders have to ask themselves – Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become wiser, healthier, and more productive? Servant Leaders are not unassertive BUT actually perform at a high level.

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